Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future / Ross Institute Summer Academy 2007

Howard Gardner, renowned education expert and one of Ross School's founding mentors, presents the five kinds of minds—ways of thinking and acting—critical for success in the rapidly changing environment of the 21st century. These include the disciplined, synthesizing and creative minds which are all related to intellect, as well as the respectful and ethical minds which emphasize character. Gardner describes what it means for students and citizens of the world to exhibit these types of minds and contends that without these minds, we risk being overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace and incapable of the judgment needed to thrive both personally and professionally.

Gardner is John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Over the last two decades Gardner has been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education.

View excerpt: http://youtu.be/3CUp3WgyjS0

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http://www.pz.harvard.edu/

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[Ye Jin]

Thank you for sharing the video.

[grizligrizli0]

he is a big change agent - a social engineer!!!

[grizligrizli0]

bunch of BS

[Steven Henningsgard]

Dig this dude.

[Jonas Andersson]

He´s really overpaid.

[Jonas Andersson]

HOWARD GARDNER;s "TEORIE"

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شكرا جاردنر

[chrismca]

If you look at large surveys of people taking these tests you'll find that severe discrepancies do not occur often. In fact, the correlations between the subtests are far higher than the vast majority correlations found in social science research. That's the fact of the matter. It is most likely these robust and repeated findings that explain the acceptance of g theory.

And it's Gardner's continued failure to directly & honestly address this fact that makes me doubt his scientific ethics.

[zadeh79]

Where is there evidence to explain the fact of severe discrepancies which often exist between individual sub-tests of conventional IQ tests. The theory of general intelligence cannot adequately explain, for example, why someone such as myself can score in the lows 120's on certain sub-tests of intelligence and in the mid-90's on other subtests. Sub-test scatter is a direct contradiction to g. So the only plausible explanation to why conventional theories hold is 'bias'.

[chrismca]

"constitute a profitable return?" No. Nor are they likely to create one.

Because for that to happen you'd need for a plurality of people to look at the facts of the research and understand that there is no evidence that MI is a viable scientific idea. And, if the students are the priority, the videos would need to spur folks to discover what DOES work in education, instead of what does NOT (i.e., MI)

We should learn more about what truly works and file MI with Open Classrooms and the other BS.